Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

[Roberto Ragusa]

On 05/04/2013 06:35 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/05/04/1248242/fedora-19-to-stop-masking-passwords
> 
> Well, that escalated quickly.

And in one of the replies:

http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3716785&cid=43628711

  "I like the way Windows 8 addressed this problem. They added a button that
  looks like an eye on the right hand side of the password field to show
  the password as you've typed it. That seems like a better compromise than
  briefly showing the password characters."

I think Microsoft just succeeded in teaching Linux something about security practices.
And this is not something to be proud of.

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